Sugar-Based Chocolate Glaze for Cookies

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1½ cups

    glaze, enough to finish several dozen cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

This easy, beautifully shiny glaze is for dipping cookies or biscotti. It works equally well as a decoration when streaked from a fork or spoon or from a paper cone, squeeze bottle, or the snipped edge of a nonpleated plastic bag.

Don’t make this glaze until just before you intend to use it or it will harden and set.

Ingredients

  • cup water
  • cup light corn syrup
  • 1 cup

Method

  1. Combine the water, corn syrup, and sugar in a medium saucepan over low heat and bring it to a boil, stirring often to dissolve all the sugar crystals. When the syrup has come to a boil, let it continue to boil for about 15 seconds.
  2. Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate all at once. Shake the pan to make sure all the chocolate is submerged and let s